Grey Gallows – Garden Of Lies (Album – Cold Transmission Music)
Genre/Influences: Cold-Wave. Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl. Background/Info: Greek duo Grey Gallows have already released a number of albums, and now...
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Mark E Moon – Old Blood (Album – Cold Transmission Music)
Genre/Influences: Cold-Wave, Gothic. Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl. Background/Info: Hailing from the Isle Of Man, Mark Sayle and Phil Reynolds strike...
Gothic rock act Black Angel reveals new album, ‘Prince Of Darkness’
Gothic rockers Black Angel return with a 3rd album, "Prince of Darkness". The release comes one year after their previous...
They Die – Deviant Love (Album – Jetglow Recordings)
Genre/Influences: Cold-Wave, Post-Punk, Gothic. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: They Die is an Italian trio set up in 2020 and, which...
Labels Interviews: File 5: Alex Storm / Trisol: ‘I’m Interested In Artists Who Want To Create Something New’
German label Trisol has been set up in 1997 by Alex Storm. He’s also running Apocalyptic Vision, which was his...
’30 Years Of Journalism – Celebration Interview’ with Johan Van Roy (Suicide Commando): ‘I Probably Will Continue Writing Music Till I Drop Dead’
Back in 1991 I started writing my first reviews for Side-Line magazine. I would have never thought to go on...
‘Click Interview’ with Chris Shape: ‘Living In Lockdown Is Essentially My Way Of Life’
Cristian Camporesi is an Italian musician/producer/live performer/sound designer who has been involved with an endless list of projects. His latest...
Strict Machine: ‘Chrome’ – new and refreshing Norwegian darkwave with tribute to JG Ballard
(By our Norwegian correspondent Jan Ronald Stange)For those missing the dark voice of Andrew Eldritch (The Sisters of Mercy), the...
Kill Your Boyfriend – Killadelica (Album – Shyrec)
Genre/Influences: Shoegaze, Industrial-Rock. Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl. Background/Info: Italian formation Kill Your Boyfriend has been active since 2011. The band...
‘Click Interview’ with Navigator Project: ‘We Started With The Abyss To Reach, In The End, The Light’
NAVIGATOR PROJECT is an Italian band based in Naples. The band was set up by Amir Sabljaković and joined by...
The Midnight Computers – Anxious (Album – Swiss Dark Nights / Manic Depression Records)
Genre/Influences: Cold-Wave, Dark-Wave. Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl. Background/Info: The Midnight Computers is a French trio featuring members from different musical...
The Black Capes – Lullabies For The Dead (Album – darkTunes Music Group)
Genre/Influences: Gothic, goth-rock. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Greek formation The Black Capes saw the light of day in 2016. The...
Norway’s Hypnocrates lands neo-darkwave/postpunk debut ‘Modern Nightmares’
Out now is "Modern Nightmares", the first full length album by neo-darkwave/postpunk project Hypnocrates. Based in Oslo, Norway, the band...
Rodney Orpheus (The Cassandra Complex) interview on being revolutionary and opinionated
Set up in the 1980 by Rodney Orpheus and Paul Dillon, The Cassandra Complex got rapidly completed by the addition...
Absurd Minds – Sapta (Album – Scanner / Dark Dimensions)
Genre/Influences: Wave-pop, dark-electro, EBM. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: The album “Tempus Fugit” (2017) marked the return of Absurd Minds after...
Moonlight Meadow – Moonlight Meadow (Album – Wave Records)
Genre/Influences: Cold-wave, dark-wave, gothic. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Moonlight Meadow is a Polish formation set up in 2015 and driven...
Mark E. Moon – Refer (Album – Cold Transmission Music)
Genre/Influences: Cold-wave, gothic. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: I can’t remember to have ever heard an underground artist/band hailing from the...
‘Click Interview’ with Circumpolar: ‘There Is So Much Great New Music Within Our Genre Yet To Discover’
Circumpolar is a Swedish duo driven by Jonas Mattson and Patrik Wallin. They last year self-released their debut-EP “Until The...
A Projection – Section (CD Album – Metropolis Records)
Genre/Influences: Cold-wave, post-punk, wave-rock. Background/Info: Set up in 2013 and operating from Stockholm (Sweden) A Projection released two albums on...
The Membranes song ‘Nocturnal’ gets the remix treatment by Kitty Lectro – watch the video
Iconic UK post-punk/alt act The Membranes release an EP featuring two remixes of their song "Nocturnal" by goth rock/darkwave Goth...
Der Klinke – Decade (CD Album – Wool-E Discs)
Genre/Influences: Gothic, cold-wave. Background/Info: “Decade” is a truly appropriate title to celebrate ten years of the Belgian gothic/cold-wave formation Der...
The Wake – Masked (2CD Album – Cleopatra Records)
Genre/Influences: Gothic rock, Post-punk. Background/Info: This is a re-release of the original album of 1993, in a limited edition of...
Monographic – Structures (CD Album – Cold Transmission Music)
Genre/Influences: Cold-wave, dark-rock. Background/Info: Set up in 2014 the Hamburger (Germany) based Monographic joined hands together with Cold Transmission Music...
Palais Ideal – Pressure Points (CD Album – Cold Transmission Music)
Genre/Influences: Cold-wave, rock-wave. Background/Info: Last year I discovered the German duo John Edwards (guitars, vocals, synths, programming) - Richard van...
Sisters Of Mercy guitarist Chris Catalyst leaves the band
(Picture by Chris Catalyst) Sisters Of Mercy guitarist Chris Catalyst has announced his departure from the band in a tweet...
Cubanate is back with ‘Kolossus’ EP : the first new release since 1998 + video for ‘Missing Persons’
The industrial techno-rock duo Cubanate have announced the release of their first new music in over two decades in the...
Dead Inside – Dead Inside (CD Album – Danse Macabre)
Genre/Influences: Rock-gothic, gothic, death-rock. Background/Info: Dead Inside is a new formation hailing from Italy unleashing their debut work on Danse...
Junor Reactor’s Kris Kylven revamps his industrial project Ultimate Xperience with a brand new album
Kris Kylven (Junor Reactor's Drummer / Collaborator / The 69 Eyes Remixer & Ex-Killing Joke) returns with his trance /...
The Cascades – Phoenix (CD Album – Echozone)
Genre/Influences: Gothic, goth-rock. Background/Info: Originally set up in the late 80s, The Cascades released their most significant material during the...
Whispering Sons – Image (CD Album – Smile Records)
Genre/Influences: Cold-wave, post-punk. Background/Info: The Brussels based Whispering Sons were set up in 2013 and became one of Belgian hottest...
Still Patient? – Zeitgeist Weltschmerz (CD Album – Schwarzrock / Dark Dimensions)
Genre/Influences: Gothic, goth-rock. Background/Info: Three years after their last and successful album “Shape Shifters”, the German Still Patient? band is...
Atomic Neon – Remember Me (CD Album – Alice In… / Dark Dimensions)
Genre/Influences: Gothic, cold-wave, rock-goth. Background/Info: After having released three albums on Black Rain and one album on Holy Hour Records,...
ACTORS – It Will Come To You (CD Album – Artoffact Records)
Genre/Influences: Dark wave, post-punk. Background/Info: Debut full-length cd of this Vancouver (Canada) based quartet which already released their first single...
‘The Chaser’ single from The Ghostly Ravens – new exciting project from Fredrikstad
(By our Norwegian correspondent Jan Ronald Stange) Imagine David Lynch producing an offspring of The Jesus And Mary Chain and...
Palais Ideal – No Signal (CD Album – Dark Vinyl)
Genre/Influences: New-wave, rock-wave, rock-pop. Background/Info: Palais Ideal is a ‘new’ formation set up by an experienced duo. John Edwards (guitars,...
Miazma – Miazma (CD Album – Dark Vinyl)
Genre/Influences: Gothic, cold-wave. Background/Info: Swedish band Miazma was set up in 1997 by Kristian Olofsson and Tomas Tornevall. The duo...
A Slice Of Life – A Slice Of Life (CD EP – A Slice Of Life)
Genre/Influences: Cold-wave, rock-wave, gothic. Background/Info: Set up by singer Dirk Vreys (obsCURE) and guitarist Guy Wilssens (Perverted By Language) A...
The Mission issues 1990 and 1995 Rockpalast live recordings as 2CD/DVD set in May – pre-orders ready now
Out in May as a 2CD/DVD set is the concert film “Live at Rockpalast” by The Mission. Both recordings featured...
Der Klinke – The Unexpected (CD Album – Wool-E Discs)
Genre/Influences: Gothic, new-wave, cold-wave. Background/Info: After having released their three previous albums on Echozone, Der Klinke joined hands with the...
Then Comes Silence – Blood (CD Album – Nuclear Blast Records)
Genre/Influences: Dark wave, post-punk, gothic rock. Background/Info: This is already the fourth album of this Swedish act, that was founded...
The Cascades – Diamonds And Rust (DCD Album – Echozone)
Genre/Influences: Gothic, goth-rock, post-punk. Background/Info: German formation The Cascades saw the daylight in 1988 (!), but it took them years...
Velvet Kills – Mischievous Urges (CD Album – Unknown Pleasures Records)
Genre/Influences: Cold-wave, new-wave. Background/Info: Velvet Kills is a Portuguese duo consisting of Susana Santos and Harris Iveson. They previously released...
The Raudive – Future Transmissions (CD Album – Unknown Pleasures Records)
Genre/Influences: Dark-rock, new-wave. Background/Info: Last year The Raudive released a digital mini-album featuring 7 songs. The trio Marc Atkinson (guitar,...
Der Himmel Über Berlin – Amnesia (CD Album – Unknown Pleasures Records)
Genre/Influences: Cold-wave. Background/Info: “Amnesia” is the second official album by the Italian formation Der Himmel Über Berlin. For this new...
The Shyness Of Strangers – Time (CD Album – Unknown Pleasures Records)
Genre/Influences: Dark-wave, post-punk, new-wave. Background/Info: The Shyness Of Strangers is a solo-project set up by Vadim Kristopher who’s a Polish...
‘Click Interview’ with Gimme Shelter: ‘ I Do Not Know What Is So Funny About Being Named After A Title Of The Rolling Stones’
German duo Robert Grolms - Niko Kötzsch are active under the Gimme Shelter moniker for a couple of years now....
Bloody Dead And Sexy – Crucifixion, Please! / An Incomplete Guide To Psychedelic Deathrock (CD Album – Alice In…)
Genre/Influences: Post-punk, new-wave. Background/Info: To celebrate their 20th anniversary Bloody Dead And Sexy together with their label Alice In… has...
The Sisters Of Mercy’s ‘Some Girls Wander By Mistake’ re-released as 4LP vinyl boxset – grab your copy here
The new 4 x 180-gram The Sisters Of Mercy vinyl box set "Some Girls Wander By Mistake" focuses on the band's...
Die Krupps sees vinyl reissue of ‘II: The Final Option’ including 11 bonus remixes by The Sisters Of Mercy, Paradise Lost, …
One of the most successful Die Krupps albums ever, "II : The Final Option", sees a double vinyl re-issue. This...
She Pleasures Herself – Fetish (CD Album – Manic Depression Records)
Genre/Influences: New-wave, cold-wave, gothic. Background/Info: Hailing from Lisbon (Portugal) She Pleasures Herself is a trio featuring members who already gained...
Guillotine Dream – Lemuria (CD Mini-Album – Guillotine Dream)
Genre/Influences: Gothic, new-wave. Background/Info: Guillotine Dream is a gothic formation that was originally set up in the 80s. They released...
‘Click Interview’ with Llumen: ‘I Strive To Make Llumen Very Much My Own’
LLUMEN is the newest Belgian formation that joined the Alfa Matrix stable. It all started as a real band featuring...
Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters plans ‘The Wall’ performance on US-Mexico border – Texmex Pink Floyd fans super happy
Good news for the Pink Floyd fans living near the US-Mexico border. Pink Floyd's Roger Waters is planning a concert...
Dear Deer – Oh My (Vinyl Album – Manic Depression Records)
Genre/Influences: Post-punk, cold-wave, industrial. Background/Info: Dear Deer is a duo consisting of Federico Lovino (Popoï Sdioh) and Sabatel (Cheshire Cat,...
ASP – Live… Auf Rauen Pfaden (4CD Box – Trisol)
Genre/Influences: Dark-rock, goth-rock, goth-metal, epic, medieval, ballad. Background/Info: ASP is a real phenomenon. Alexander Spreng is the creative spirit and...
Sisters of Mercy to make another album now that Trump is elected?
While Marilyn Manson wants to chop of Trump's head, there is also more constructive news. In an interview swith Teamrock...
The Mission – Another Fall From Grace (CD Album – Eyes Wide Shut Recordings)
Genre/Influences: Gothic-rock. Background/Info: Wayne Hussey and Craig Adams (both ex-Sisters Of Mercy) set up The Mission in 1985. They rapidly...
The Raudive – Future Transmissions (Digital EP – Unknown Pleasures Records)
Genre/Influences: Dark-rock & new-wave. Background/Info: I never heard of The Raudive before. The band is driven by a 3-membered combo...
Kuolemanlaakso returns with ‘M. Laakso – Vol. 1: The Gothic Tapes’ released on (red & black) vinyl and in a CD boxset
Coming up in the next few weeks is the deluxe DVD sized artbook CD "M. Laakso – Vol. 1: The...
Martin Gore (Depeche Mode) featured on new The Mission album ‘Another fall from grace’ – order now on 2CD+DVD and 2LP
Out on a few weeks is "Another Fall From Grace", a brand new The Mission album. It was produced by...
Feeding Fingers – Attend (DCD Album – Sounds For Sure Records/Tephramedia)
Genre/Influences: New-wave, rock-pop, chanson, wave-folk, cinematographic. Background/Info: Justin Curfman is a man of many talents. He wrote and published several...
Wayne Hussey re-works Sisters Of Mercy classic ‘Marian’, backed by ‘My Love Will Protect You’, for charity 7inch single
Wayne Hussey is planning a new limited edition double A side 7" featuring a re-working of the classic Sisters Of...
Gregoriev – When Death Comes (CD Album – Gregoriev)
Genre/Influences: Metal-rock, gothic. Background/Info: Gregoriev is a solo-project set up by Polish multi-instrumentalist Grzegorz Morawski. He was previously involved in...
The Mission anounce 30th anniversary tour + new album
2016 sees The Mission celebrating 30 years since they first set foot on the stage at the Alice In Wonderland...
Still Patient? – Shape Shifters (CD Album – Schwarzrock/Dark Dimensions)
Genre/Influences: Gothic, goth-rock. Content: Still Patient? were one of the biggest promising bands from the German gothic scene during the...
The Sisters of Mercy postpone final 3 dates of October 2015 tour due to illness
The Sisters of Mercy have announced that they have had to postpone the final 3 dates of their October 2015...
